New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging v3 (vB3)

Advanced @User Tagging Mod: What is it?

DragonByte Technologies is proud to present [DBTech] Advanced @User Tagging.
This version introduces several major new features that users have requested, and some others we were unable to fit in v1.0.

The @user Tagging mod is designed to increase activity on your forum by allowing members to mention each other in posts when talking about them.
This is done in a very easy way, very similar to how Twitter mentions people. We use @ ; as the tags, so for instance you could say:
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This new mod from @Dragonbyte Tech; is pretty cool.
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The ?@DragonByte Tech;? Will become a link to the DragonByte Tech users profile, it will also inform DragonByte Tech they had been mentioned, and link to the relevant thread/post via a new area in the profile section, as well as a new tab in the shoutbox.

It also allows members to ?tag? the thread for specific other members by inputting their usernames in the tag box above the posts of the thread.

This is a great way to increase your forum activity with no extra admin input required ? people will start to mention posts/threads to their friends, which will increase the amount of posting. This is especially useful of forums which have an international contingent (so threads posted in during the night for some of your members don't go overlooked) or forums which have a lot of posts/threads each day ? again to make sure that a post a person might want to read doesn't get lost in the crowd.

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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php

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Major Features
Twitter-style @ "Mentions": Typing @username produces a "Mention" that will alert the user to your post, as well as link to their profile.

Quote Alerts: Members you quote will be alerted, ensuring that discussions can continue smoothly even if they left the thread.

Profile Integration: Displays Mentions, Tags and Quotes in profile tabs for quick overview of a member's activities within the mod.


Complete Feature List
Lite

Emails:

• Email alerts for all features
• Globally disable emails for any of the features

General Features:

• Ability to disable Thread Tag list entirely for guests
• Globally disable any of the features

General:

• Statistics Page: Top X Thread Tagged, Top X Mentioned (Lite locked to Top 5)
• "Mention" alerts: Type @username to mention someone, and link to their profile. Email & forum notification
• Quote alerts: Email & forum notification
• Tag an user in a thread to alert them to the thread via a box above threads
• View list of tagged users above threads, with link to see all tags
• Profile Tabs: Lists both incoming and outgoing mentions, quotes and thread tags
• Shoutbox Integration: New Shoutbox Tab to list incoming mentions & tags
• Control how many users to display in inline tag list
• Turn statistics page on & off
• Control BBCode for mentioned usernames (Underline only)
• Control [DBTech] vBShout integration
• Turn features on & off per category
• Globally disable email alerts
• Ability to set maximum mentions per post (default: unlimited)

Pro

• Hash Tags:
  • One-click (un)subscribe to hash tags via the post list page
  • Clicking a hashtag shows all posts tagged with that word.
  • (vB4) Forum Sidebar widget with Recent and Trending hash tags
  • Control number of Recent / Trending hash tags
  • Control time span for Recent / Trending hash tags (x Hours/Days/Weeks)
  • Control stat weights given to individual users using the hash tag, and number of uses in total (for the Trending score)
  • Control display of number of users, number of uses and trending score
  • Deny usergroups access to sidebar block
  Emails:
  • Per-user email disable for any of the 4 features
  General Features:
  • Ability to Mention and Thread Tag whole usergroups by typing their name. Per-UG permission to disable Mentions / Thread Tags for this UG.
  General:
• Ability to tag all your friends by checking a checkbox instead of typing out usernames
• Ability to tag and mention all usergroups by typing out the usergroup name, permissions control what UGs can be mentioned and tagged
• Turn off alerts from everyone except friends
• Hide forum notifications for individual features
• Turn off email alerts for individual features
• Hash tags, Twitter-style, add a topic to your post, sends notification to subscribed users
• (vB4) Forum Sidebar block with Recent & Trending hash tags
• (vB4) Works with the Mobile Style (4.1.12+)
• Turn tag list off
• Control number of users displayed on Top X Stats
• Hide "@" on mentions
• Additional BBCode (Bold, Italic, Highlight) for mentions
• Exclude usergroups from features
• Exclude users from features

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[Taurus1]

This is really something I can use. Thank you. I am looking into also buying the pro version. Although I get this error after installation when I go into a thread:

Fatal error: Class 'vB_Template' not found in /home/thebull/public_html/forums/dbtech/usertag/hooks/postbit_display_complete.php on line 9

I hope you can help. Thanks!

[ctrlbrk]

I am quite interested in this... but...

a) I don't think I want the Thread tagging (separate tagging, not @). Can it easily be disabled?

b) I think using the semicolon is going to be too much for dumb users What about the option of making it something more like BBcode, like [@username] and that way there is also a toolbar icon (like a megaphone -> shout icon), and the dialog input box can just ask "username to shout at" or whatever. Just an idea.

c) I see on your forum you're already considering group/category shouts, that sounds like a very good idea.

d) Kind of a follow-up to (b) now that I think about it My forum usernames have this regex "^[A-Z0-9 ]+$", with that in mind I am wondering if there is a simpler way as to not require the semicolon to activate the tagging...

Mike

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Taurus1

This is really something I can use. Thank you. I am looking into also buying the pro version. Although I get this error after installation when I go into a thread:

Fatal error: Class 'vB_Template' not found in /home/thebull/public_html/forums/dbtech/usertag/hooks/postbit_display_complete.php on line 9

I hope you can help. Thanks!

I believe that has been fixed now, re-download the zip and re-upload all the files

Originally Posted by ctrlbrk

a) I don't think I want the Thread tagging (separate tagging, not @). Can it easily be disabled?

You'd have to remove the contents of the taglist template. That should kill it, and you didn't even have to use fire!

Originally Posted by ctrlbrk

b) I think using the semicolon is going to be too much for dumb users What about the option of making it something more like BBcode, like [@username] and that way there is also a toolbar icon (like a megaphone -> shout icon), and the dialog input box can just ask "username to shout at" or whatever. Just an idea.

A toolbar icon is a good idea, thanks! I'll write that down for future versions.

Originally Posted by ctrlbrk

d) Kind of a follow-up to (b) now that I think about it My forum usernames have this regex "^[A-Z0-9 ]+$", with that in mind I am wondering if there is a simpler way as to not require the semicolon to activate the tagging...

You still have a space in your username, which means matching on space won't work.
Also, not every forum has that regexp To get it working properly, we had to step away from a simple regexp and onto more advanced parsing, so I think our best bet is to go with that BBCode toolbar icon


In other news, a small fix for HTML characters not appearing properly in thread tags (& being shown as & etc) has been released

[Taurus1]

Awesome!! All good now! Thanks for the fast update. I am tagging....

EDIT: I tried to tag all my staff in my Admin forum informing them of this new mod. So I added all their usernames in the editor like this: @username; @username; etc. After posting, I see the their names are now linked to their userprofiles. But there is no mention of the post under the "Mention" tab on their profiles though. The profile page also don't finish loading. Can you please advise.

Thank you.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Taurus1

EDIT: I tried to tag all my staff in my Admin forum informing them of this new mod. So I added all their usernames in the editor like this: @username; @username; etc. After posting, I see the their names are now linked to their userprofiles. But there is no mention of the post under the "Mention" tab on their profiles though.

Does the postbit still update with incremented "mentions" count?

Additionally, can you open the dbtech_usertag_mention table and see if the mentions inserted properly there?

[Taurus1]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Does the postbit still update with incremented "mentions" count?

I don't see any count in the postbit for 'mentions' in the postbit.

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Additionally, can you open the dbtech_usertag_mention table and see if the mentions inserted properly there?

Sorry, where to check this?

[TheInsaneManiac]

I don't like having to type out @username and then having to include a Semicolon...

Also, you didn't cache any of the templates in your modification.

Is it possible to make it similar to Twitter with just @username?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Taurus1

I don't see any count in the postbit for 'mentions' in the postbit.



Sorry, where to check this?

the table would be checked in phpmyadmin or a similar mysql tool. Sorry I can't be of more help atm but I am currently without a net connection

Originally Posted by TheInsaneManiac

I don't like having to type out @username and then having to include a Semicolon...

Also, you didn't cache any of the templates in your modification.

Is it possible to make it similar to Twitter with just @username?

sorry, Twitter style is not possible because ; is the only way we can detect the end of am username.

I'll look into template caching, thanks

[Taurus1]

Would just like to let you know that this is now working perfectly!! And it is really awesome!! I would recommend this to everyone!

And thanks again for your great service mate!!

[jorge_kai]

fantastic, installed!!